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Letter From Gen. Longstreet on
the Political Situation.
Nkw Ormcans, La , 1
March 18. 17«7. j
JLiiitur A’< tc 0 Irons Time* :
Dear Sir —In your paper of yes
terday you have expressed a desire to
hear the views of several gentlemen
upon the political condition of the
country. I find my name mentioned
upon your list, nud proceed, without
hesitation, to respond.
As I have never applied myself to
politics, I cannot claim to speak to the
wise statesmen of the country, who
are devoting their energies to the so
lution of the problem which agitates
the public mind. I can only speak
the plain, honest convictions of a sol.
dier. '
It can hardly be necessary at this
late day to enter into a discussion of
the mstter that is usually brought up
ia arguing upon the proposed plan for
reconstructing the Government. In
deed, I think that mat y of them are
not pertinent to the question.
Ihe striking feature, and the one
that our people should keep in view,
is, that we are a conquered people.— |
Recognizing this fact fairly and squar- j
ely, there is but one course leit for wise
men to pursue. Accept the terms i
that are offered us by the conquerors !
There Can be no discredit to a con
quered people for accepting the con
ditions offered by their conquerors. —
Nor is there any occasion for a fee
ling of humiliation. We have made
an honest, and I hope that J may say, i
a creditable fight; but we have lost.
Let us come forward, then, and accept
the ends involved in the struggle.
Our people earnestly desire that i
the Constitutional Government shall
be re-cstablii-hcd, and the only means
to accomplish this is to comply with '
the requirements of the receut Con- i
grcssional legislation.
It is said by some that Congress will '
•not receive us even after wc have com
plied with their conditions. * But 1
can find no sufficient reason for enter- .
taining this proposition for a moment.
1 cannot admit that the repr-senta-i-te
men or a great nation could make 1
such a pledge in bad faith. Admit
ting, however, that there, is such a
mental reservation, can that be any
excuse for us in failing to discharge
our duty ? Let us accept the terms
as we arc in duty bound to do, and if
there is a lack of good faith, let it be
upon others.
I am, very re peeifiilty,
Your most obd't servant,
James Longstreet.
A Vision of the Future. Last week,
the New York Day-Book re.fered to !
that curious glimpse of the future
which seemed to have crossed the vis
ion of President Johnson in writing
his veto of the Military Subjugation
Bill, and subsequently quoted from
that document the paragraph in full :
“ * * * Those who sdvocateu
the right of secession alleged in their
own justification that we had no re.
gard for law, and that their riirhts of
property, life and liberty would not be
sale under the Constitution as admin
istered by us. If we now verify that
aaecrtioa we prove that they i cere iu
truth and in fact fighting for their lib
erty, and, instead of branding their
leaders with the dishonoring name of
traitors against righteous and legal
government, we elevate them in his
tory to the rank of aelf-saorificiug pa
triots j consecrate them to the admira
tion of the »corlil and place them by
the side of Washington , Hampden
and Sidney.' 1
The Dayißook adds, this glare of
truth was so offensive, that Mr Julin
•od at once turns from it!
General Pope —General I‘ope,
since his campaigns in Virrginia, has
been on duty among the Indians. A
contemporary thinks this in his favor,
as he will come among us with a mind
comparatively free from party or sec
tional prejudices and malice.
Ucficral Pope was born in Illinois
about 1822, but appointed a cadet
from Kentucky ; graduated at West
Point in the corps of Topographical
Engineers ; brevetted First Lieutenant
and Captain for gallant conduct at
Monterey and Buena Vista ; Captain
in 1h59 ; Colonel in Juue, 1801 ; com
manded in Missouri in February,
1862; captured New Madrid and ai
ded in the capture of Island 10 ; com
manded the advance at Corinth ;
placed in commaud in Virginia; and
conducted the campaign against the
Indians.
The Montgomery Mail says : “Gen
eral Pope has always borne the repu.
tation of a clever gentleman of conser
vative views, and we believe that his
appointment to the military command
of this District will be a source of
great relief to the people.”
Tribute of RttprtU to Gen l Scho
field. —The luUllijencer »ay* ; The
recent order of General Schofield, »o
ropectlul to the people of Virginia
and regardful of thetr feelings, is the
beat possible negative to the libels
upon them which are even now used
to fire the Northern heart. Referring
to the subject, the Richmond IHspmtdi
has occasion, we are glad to say,
for uaiDg the following language
“We find that the rigors of the sit
nation are mitigated by the official
good sense of a gentleman. No un
provoked and unnecessary harshness
has marked the inauguration of an ab.
•olute military despotism in Virginia.
The temple of our civil liberties has
not been demolished by a brief order.
No civil officer has been disturbed in
the faithful discharge of bis duties.
The sword has not heen drawn, nor
the military dictator inaugurated amid
a blast of trumpets, the roar of can-,
non, the clash of sabre*, and the shouts
of the soldiery. Governors, legisla
tors, and judges perform their tunc
turns with assurances of aid and pro
tection in the discharge of their legit
imate d.titles ”
j&rutjient (£ntcr|)rise
* (SEMI-WEEKLY.)
L. C. BRYAN, : : : : Editor.
THOMABVILLE, GA.:
TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1807.
A SHORT CHAT FOR THE
COLORED PEOPLE.
If you will read the numerous pa
pers of the South, you will find that so
far from cherishing a desire to injur«
and oppress the colored feople, many
of the most distinguished men in the
are at this moment adv -eating
the impartial execution of the laws,
and everywhere counselling the South
ern white people to conciliation, mod
eration and kindness to the colored
people. Public expressions indicate
a general desire among the white peo
ple, to cultivate a spirit of harmony
and good feeling toward the colored ;
people, and believing, in the words of
Gen. Sickles, that “ whatever seriously
impairs the rights of one rare, must
result injuriously to the other,” the
Southern white people are ready to
form an alliance offensive and and ten
sive with, the colored people of the j
South, for the fail hln I execution of
the local laws, and all national laws
binding upon them as a people, for
the peace and harmony of society, for
the expulsion of all interlopers and j
mischief uiak-rs, ai-d for the mutual i
welfare of both races. What more
could they propose ? They meet you
more than half way to tell you they
desire to be your friends. But to
know what they say respecting you,
and what they think in regard to your
fbture welfare, you must meet them
in their public assemblies with unbi
ased minds, and read their publie
journals with unprejudiced under
standirg. When we desire to know
what the North is saving and think-ng
; ot us, we read the Northern papers,
and when you wish to kuow what w j
! are thinking and saying of you. ycu
| must read ottr papers. That is the
way to find out the truth. If you
i read papers that do not represent our
views, you will all the time be misled
j and deceived, as to what we sav and
• think. You are advised by men, hav
j mg no good feeling or friendship for
the Southern white people, to patron
ize and read papers they have estab
j lishcd, tor the express purpose of mis-
I representing us ami deceiving you, that
they may be able, by means of these
papers, of poisoning your minds against
i the Southern white people, and set
- ting you at variance with them. If
- they succeed in this evil d-sign, they
will control your votes under pretence
of being your ouly patrons sod friends,
and thus set themselves up as your
! leaders, to revel and fatten on the
I spoils of the offices your vdes are to
furnish for them. Now, these men
who are now trying to drill you into
ranks to vote for them are i ckste men.
| like we of the South, and are from the
; same old English stock as the South
ern white people, ami how is it tL.it
they have fallen out with their own
! race, and so suddenly fallen in love
with the colored rae■: ? Will colored
men fall out with their own race and
!go over to the white race ? You can
not find a single instance. You may
ibe su r e then, that it is unnatural for
those Northern white men to hate and
j injure their own race, while they flat.
| ter and fawn upon the colored race,
und as sure as the sun slimes at noun
j day, they will forsake you whenever
j they fall to be profited by your servi
j ces or your votes. But the Southern
; white people arc your natural and pro.
j per friends, because they live with
you, have raised you from childh jod,
have boon profited, not by your votes,
but by your faithful lubor, which they
recoguizc and appreciate, and for which
they now owe you a debt of gratitudo
To pay this debt they are willing to
be your friends, to watch over your
interests, to guard your legal rights, to
employ your labor on their farms, aid
you in obtaining education, and to
make you u happy and contented peo
ple. All they now or ever wdl ask of
you, is your confidence and co-opera-
I lion. But tht-v ask of you not to bo
j liovc thofalv uoods and misropresen
| talious of their t- aduccrs—tin y ask
! you to read the better class of jour
i nals in the South, or the more honest
j Republican papers of tho North. More
| anon.
fl*aJ"Should our readers consider our
news column dull, let them turn their
eyrs to the new advertisement of J.
Scl) iff Sc Rrother, and behold Ihe ar
ray of splendid articles offered for sale
in the dry goods line. These gentle
men hare also tail in a stock of spring
goods, and with their usual oourtesy,
will exhib t them at their counters
free of cherge.
•ST 1 We direct the especial attention
of our readers to the new advertisc
rmut of Messrs. I Kubitahek Sc Bro.,
who have completed their spring stock
of dry goods, and nre now prepared to
satisfy every demand made upon their
line of business. Remember, they
selected their fine goods with anew
to phase the taste of the ladies.
CONGRESS ADJOURNED.
At last the country is notified that
Congress has adjourned. Having plac
ed ibe South under a oomplete Mili
tary Despotism, the Radical Congress
has adjourned and gono home, q-rictl'.
to witness the consternation produc'd
by their measures of bate and revenge.
Like Nero, when he caused Rome to
be set on fire for bis amusement, they
now retire to a sale plaoe of observa
tion, and may now play upon tboir
Radical fiddles In the North, while
despotic law is being executed to the
letter in the M«atb.
MR. BAKER S SCHOOL.
In company with a friend, we drop
ped in unexpectedly, during the clos
ing exercises, on Friday evening last,
of the popular School of Mr. John K.
Baker, at Fletcher Institute. We
found the boys declaiming, and always
deriving pleasure from such exercises
by the young, we remained until the
close. Moat of the boys did well, and
a few acquitted themselves with great
credit, and are not far behind the best
we have heard in the Institute, in its
palmiest days.
Mr. Baker ia distinguished, as a
teacher, no less for his correct and
rigid, but gentle discipline, than For
his fine education and natural talent
for imparting it to others Being a
thorough Christian gentleman himself,
he enforces his principles in liis school,
and through all the exercises their
good influences aie visible, lie has
now about fifty scholars, able assist
ants, nni a growing reputation. Iu
tliis brii f notice we have alluded to
the boys. Oil our next visit to the
Institute, we may have something to
say about the gills.
COLORED ASSOCIATION.
We have been favored by Giles
Price, Ulerk ot ttie Association, with
a copy of the Minutes of a Colored
Baptist Association, organized at
Thotuaiville on the 21st of December
last, and composed of the co'ored
Churches at Thomasvillc, Bainbridge,
Quitman, Valdosta and Clinch County.
The aggregate of members of the
Churches represented was 35U, and the
amount of money sent up to the Asso
ciation 515,00. Their organization,
rules of decorum, arti -les of faith, Ac.,
are all substantially the same as these
of the white Baptist Associations, and
the proceedings as kept by the Clerk
quite intelligently written. This As
sociation is the only one among the
colored Baptists in the Southern por
tion oi' the State, and will doubtless
absorb all the colored ‘ Baptists in
Southern Georgia and Middle Florida.
THE SMETS LIBRARY.
This splendid library, we sec by a
paragraph going the rounds, is to be
soli in New fork the coming fall. Is
it j-ossible that this or gn ficent col
lection of books and manuscripts must
leave the South ? Aud can no noble
| Georgian t-e found who will devote a
hundred thousand of his surviv.ng
millions, to immortalize himself by
presenting this richest ol American
j Libraries to the State University ?
Perhaps it could be purchased for
$50,000. We t! lik t cou and
But il there is no tndivt hal with
soul enough, wc must look to the
! State. Gentlemen ot the press, you
can influence the State to purchase
Ithis library, and you ought to do it.
Suppose we are disorganized—wc shall
be organized again by the fall, per
haps, and tl.e heirs at interest will
wait for us. They desire to see it go
1 into the State University, and it wilt
be a reproach upon us if we lose this
eieat literary trea>ure.
Old Books. lii the library of the i
late A. A. Sinet-s, of Savannah, are j
Lcn books printed previous to 1479. ,
The oldest wit pt iii Lt.-d in 1400, two \
in 1465, one in 1408, two in 1470, |
one in 1473, one in 1477, two in ‘
1178. The oldest manuscript book !
was written in the year 800, and is
now full / 1,000 years old; it is writ- j
ten on parchment, and is about the
size of a family Bil-le. The library of !
the late .Mr. Smuts will be sold iu N. j
York the coming full.
“ It is true, our people have not yet
fully done their duty, but one hundred
and thirty thousand dollars, in bonds
and individual stock, has been sub
scribed, and the remaining twenty
thousand will he taken at the meeting
on next Tuesday, sure as yo.i live. As
to Hie volcano that was c mfiued to'
Thomas county, principally, culmina
ting in a ooiivcntion that exploded
most beautifully.
You wero wrong Major, and we
were right; dou’t you see?”—/iui’n
bridge Argus .
We do not yet see our error. If
wo mistake not, our cotempornry, at
first, was going to raise the Cush —now
he talks al-uut bonds Ho may get
thut- amount of bonds, but when you
got the money on the bonds, brother
Russell, let us know. I Ve were not
nfllioted with that htHo “ volcano” in
Thomas countv, it was a small «ud in
dependent affair. The voloano we al
luded to, is now in eruption, and with
other Radical filth, it has thrown forth
universal suftrng- , equality of races,
abolition of State Governments and
Statu sovereignty, and capped the elt*
max by establishing Military Uospo
tisin. Would you not consider such a
power a political volcano ? And is it
no where savo in “Thomas County ?’’
We are glad to know that it has not
reached our ooteniporary in Decatur
county. Hut we have only touche,/
upon the evils poured out of Sherman's
Pandora Box ” We might mention
stagnation ill business ol all kinds,
losa of public confidence, idleness of
ca| ital, excitement and gloom in the
public mind, with many other evils
too numerous to mention.
MEXICAN ATROCITY.
The Mexican General, Escobedo,
has ordered and caused to be exeooted
133 French prisoners, captured.on the
Ist of Fob’y, ut San Jacinto Rancho,
on the ground of tbeir being foreign
ers and outlaws. The Brownsville
Ran,hero says they ware shot one by
one, and each bloody body left where
it felt for the next victim to look upon, j
It further states, that the victims ne
ver faltered, but when marched out
for execution, most of them sang the
Mnrselkise hymn.
JUDGE STARNES ON THE
SITUATION.
The following letter from Judge
Starnes to the Augusta Chronicle If
Sentinel, affords light upon the feel
ing entertained toward the Freedmcn
iu upper Georgia. The views of Judge
Starnes, we believe, under tl e circum
stances, aru eminently wise and pro
per, and it behooves us to adopt them
in this section i
“I was not in town on last Saturday,
and that accounts for my not having
seen, on that day, your eitoral sug
ge-ting a publie meeting of the white
and colored men in our own in unity to
discuss and Consider the new relations
in which they have been placed to
wards each other by the reocut action
of Congress. My attention was culled
iliese suggestions for the first time to
day, or 1 should sooner have said that
I heartily approve of the sentiments
contain* and in that editorial column.—
And, in reply to your 'illusion to nte
personally, I now say, I am quijte.yriU
iug to talk with and to the people
white and colored—at such a meeting,
aud believe that such an interchange
of views and opinions between persons
who have been so recently put into
new and important po'iticil relations
with eicli other, wHI be productive of
t.u-.ot>o'»l 'phoy can iIiUS C'lllic
into a clear antfexplitil understanding
with each other, ascertain if there be
any necessary antagonism between the
races here or anywhere in the South.
The result, I aui very will show
that there arc tics of the closet friend
ship, bonds of strongest aoi sternest
interests binding the white aid colored
men of .the South to each ither. 1
w ii undert ike to prove this utiny time
and at any place ; but prefer that we
should wait a few days, until the re.
turn of our Governor shall enable us a
little more accurately to decide upon
what will be the best course for both
white and black citizens to pur.-ue in
the new posture- f affairs. I sincerely
hope that our friends, especially- cur
colored friends, will not commit them
selves hast ly or rashly to any line of
■ policy until we can ha\e the fair and
reasonable understanding uirjing our
selves to which such a meeting as you
suggest will probably lead.
1 am authorized by Governor John
son, to whom you also allude person
ally, to say that he approve# what I
have written, and will cordially lend
his aid to the propose-1 mooting.
E. Starnes.
Jofferson Davis to be Released.
Washington, March 24.—The Pres
blent has recently been urged by Con
gressmen ot the Republican persua
sion and other inSuentiul citizens to
release Jefferson Davis from imprison
ment upon bail, or upon his owo recog
nizance, inasmuch as there is now le-s
probability than heretofore that Chief
Justice Chase can be induced to pre
side at a session of the United States
t’krcuit Court ia Virginia within a
reason ibie time.
J udge Lhasa baa heretofore refused
to hold court io the district in which
Mr. Davis must be tried, upou the
ground that it would not bo in keep
ing with the dignity of a Judge of the
Supreme Court to preside in a district
in which the civil authority was not
paramount and fully restored, aud
where the military arm of the Govern
ment is required to sustain the law
and direct aud contr„l the action of
the citidihs, and until the civil au
thority shall be acknowledged aud es
tablished beyond cavil. He has said,
repeatedly, that bo would m t take Iris
seat upon the bench In view of all
the e iwtumstf nees, (fn President is
asked to release Mr. Davis from con
finement on bail. Or on his own reeog
ni sauce, and there is good leusoo for
saying that within the next toil days
or two we*cka Mr. Davis will be dis
charged from custody upon his recog
nisance to answer the charges that
may be brought Against him.— Balti<
more Sun «
The Inquisition Commence,/. —After
til, the election of Beast Butler to
Congress may be productive of good
results, lie belongs to a nest of foul
birds, is hated by many of them, ami
is already scratoh-ng among their filth
and exposing it fb the public. He is
I lie very mun to air the and rty lucii of
the party, and has made a fair oom
mcneenientof the nauseating task.—
His developments concerning the trial
of Mrs. Surratt, whom I e declares an
innocent womau e-ieritjced upon (he
scaffold, and the few items of infor
mution concerning the diary of Wilkes
Booth, are all important. Tho world
will urrivo at the truth alter awhile.
The Rad eal rogues have fallen ont,
and wo shall have rare developments
ere long. Butler has a blaek record,
’tts true, but then his opponents are in
little better condition, lie has tho
advantage of having reached the top
round of infamy where there is noth
ing to lose, while they are compara
tively respect ibto in the world’s esti
mation and mfty well shrink from an
exposure of their crimes. \V<J wish
Butler God-speed iu the inquist ion
he has commenced.'— -1/wtwX Tr/rgh
Bo? - ' A difficulty occurred in the
school room of tho St. John's Semin
ary in this place, on Wednesday after
noon last, between Mr. Bristow, tho
leather, uud Fntuk rope, one of his
pupils, in whioh the latter shot the
former, inflicting wounds iu the arm
and abdomen. Mr. Bristow lies in a
very Critical condition.
Since the above was put in type we
learn that Mr. Bristow has died.—
Madison Fla Merton get, 21th i tit.
Bcyin ning toyint! them Out. —At x
uegro meeting in Brooklyn, N. York,
Rev. Mr. William*, deliv
cred a speech denunciatory of ihe Kc
publ cau leaders in this country. The
speaker culled tbeiu hypocrites, ano
said they acted towards the blaek man
like sneaking thieves.
Sale of Tammany Hall. —Tammnay
Hall, in New York, was sold at auction
on Wednesday, forsl7o,ooo, which is
considered cheap, though there may
be some mor agages upon it. The
purchaser is Mr. Charles A. Dana,
formerly Assistant Secretary of War,
snd formerly ussisfint editor of the
Tiibune. It is stated that he intends,
after the Ist of May, to fix up the
Wigwam us a newspaper establishment.
I he New York Express says :
Tamtnafty Hall was one of the oldest
political landmarks of this city. Du
ring the war of 1812 it was tbo head,
quarters of those who wert in favor of
its vigorous prosecution. At no place
were the victories of our forces receiv
ed with more hearts It e thusiasui
than iu this famous headquarters of
the Deulooracy. The leading men of
the couutry delivered addresses from
its ro-tuin on various • occasions
atm it has been remarked that it made
and unmade Piesidents. It survived
many of the parties who were de
nounced within its walls. On on i
occasion it was the great rendezvous of
the supporters of Jackson ; and t was
the sectie of a great jubifoe when he
was elevated to the Piesidency.
Wo recall in our own experience
some of the most walked events in the
political history of the country at this
old wigwam. The administrations of
Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Bu
ren especially Centre there, as do those
oi the Polk, Fierce and line ha nan ad
ministrations. It seems hut yesterday
| that we saw Lewis Gass sptt-kiug from
I the rostrum, with his coat and ncck-tie
I off, of a steaming summer evening,
i aud receiving the applause of the im
mense throng who listened to him.—
' We recall, too, the presence of Silas
Wright, and many of the old war hor
ses of tlie Democratic party. Alas,
where are they now, and what a
change of men and es times have twen
ty or thirty years wrought!
fcdy-Thc last number of Harper's
Weekly is a disgrace even to the pub
lishing house which has pandered
most and grovelled lowest to current
prejudices- It contains a cartoon en
titled “Southern Justice,’’ which is a
figure of diabolical aspect and snaky
hair, holding the sc -les, in one bowl ol
which is a single ‘'Southern gentle,
man" outweighing three figures iti the
opposite bowl labelled “Yankee,’’
“Niger” and “U. S. Soldier,*’ respec
tively. Around this arc grouped oth
er pictures, one a court-room, where,
over the dead body of a negro, the
white prisoner and the white judge
and the white spectators and reporters
are grinning and leering at one anothi
cr; and the legend is—“ Verdict, a
good joke on a nigger;” another, the
hanging, on thesatue bough rveraroad
leading to a church, of two bodies des
cribed in the legend—“ Verdict, hang
the and Yankee and nigger.” Eight
smaller pictures fill up the page. One
represent* planters “driving negroes
off their plantations, without wages,
and •shooting them,’’ and the rest are
murderers ou horseback, or clubbings,
or burnings, or drowning*, or some
other hideous form of atrocify, in
which it is always the me ro who is the
vicUm and tho white man who is the
raffan.
I'bese in furious falsehoods—-for false
hoods t .ey are as clearly as il they
were so many plainly written lies
appear upon tho same week with the
report of the meeting of the negroes
of Ci lui-bia and the address of Wade
Hampton. The Harpers, and George
William Curtis, the editor whom they
hire to concoct these rui-fchieGbreed
ing, hole engendering gi.iluii-nicg, de
serve the contempt, of every {ruth-lov
ing and and patriotic citizen..- New
York Afccs.
Jn a llotlN.—The following, which
we find in the Meridian Messenger,
touches the raw, but it is good for one
of the prevailing diseases of the coun
try, regardless of color:
“A great mnny people arc exercised
about the working. The way the ne
gro works (or don’t wmk) is the topic
of conversation everywhere, where two
or three are gathered together. The
dispositi nos the negro to labor (or not
to labor) is watched with iutensc in
terest by those who set in tc take no
special interest in anything else. We
are sick and disgusted with this ever
lasting taJa about (he shortcomings of
tho colored population. In God’s
name can’t our people clevato their
thoughts above the negro, or bestow
them upon more worthy objects? We
t-toim to led as kindly towards the ne
gro as he deserves of us, and when we
see him about to bo engulfed and lost
in idloitess and vice, we feel, we hope,
a national concern But, at the vano
li me, we borealiy confoua to the in
stincts which give our own race the
prefere-Bee in all oar thoughts If we
are concerned about the disposition of
ibe negro to do or not to do, yet our
concern sinks into indifference com
pared to ttie con coin we Pel for the
o-mduct of the whiter M Bile roinc are
trotting and fumind ab ms tffe laZy ne
groes they see m the l-wai and villa
ges, who re I use to contract and engage
in regular employment, we are im
measurably utorj distressed at the
sight of lazy white men and worn u
If the negro as a (ref man, does -iff the
work aud tarns all the wages, he will
pnWc himself the better man- t the
two. We ara anxious for the wnitc
man to xesett bin sopor oritf in alt
things by ht« works,and theretpre our
anxiety for tho white urau to gtr to
work.
Th, Death of Prof. Dr Row.—To
the Editor of the World; Sir In
your issue of the 30th. I see It asked
« it Prof De How is dead l** l answar
that be died at LhaaUtb, New Jeray,
just three wrecks ago. Hi* Review
will be hereufrer published under the
editorship of tavaeU and others.
Ri*»r Q. Barswti » .
Another Indian War.
The Government is making active
preparations for an Indian Campaign
this Spring, and there is a prospect
that in some quarters, at all events, the
war will be sharp and bloody. A force
of 2,000 men under Gen. Gibbon, is
1 r-'sdy to move into the country about
' the head-wafer of the Powder ami
| Yellowstone Rivers, where the Sioux
have long been in a chronic state of
hostility. A party of peace ootmnis'
sinners are now visiting their bands,
and troops only await their return to
decide whether to open the campaign
or not; there seems to be little hope
that the commissioner* will succeed in
their errand. In the Department of
I the Mississippi Gen. Uancock is about
to proceed in person with 1,500 men
to the country of the Cheyenes and
Kiowas, south of the Arkansas. Ilis
course there will depend upon the rc
su't of a conference which he proposes
first to hold with the tribes. If the
result be war, the language of Gen.
Sherman in speaking of these two ex
! peditions will enable us to prophesy its
j character. We cannot act upon the
defensive with the Indians, he says •
we must get among them, kill enough
i to inspire fear, and remove the rest to
places where Indian agcnt3 can reside
; among them and be responsible for
! their conduct. Death or Indian agents;
! what an alternative.—_A r , Y. Tribune,
23d.
A Very Important Decision. —The
Columbus Enquirer of Saturday says :
“U e learn verbally-—but the report
is made on the authority of a distingu
ished lawyer—that Judge Krskine, of
the United S’ates District Court, has,
during itk present term at Atlanta,
ruled in effect 11 at the adjudications by
our State Courts during the war are of
no binding effect. Tl c point, we un
derstand, came Up in this way : The
plaintiff in the United State* Court
sued on a note, an and Mr. H ansell.
counsel for the defendant, interposed
the plea that it had already been sued
upon*in a State Court, an 1 judgment
rendered therein. Judge Krskine
overruled the plea, on the ground that
there were no counts in Georgia, from
tire date of the ordinance of secession
to the close of the war, which a United
Suites Court would recognize
* “We need not attempt to explain
Hie far-reaching effect of this ruling,
if it should be sustained. There has
been no mention, that we have noticed,
irfade of it in the reports of Atlanta
papers. But it reaches us through
aoufees that do not nl!o$ us to doubt
its substantial eoncctnesa.”
Registry of Votes The follow
-1 iirg questions are asked by the Board
of Registers, in Washington City, to
ascertain the qualification of voters, at
| the corner of Nineteenth and I streets :
1. What is yoor age ?
2. Have you ever been convioted of
crime T
3. How long have you resided in
i this district?
1 4. How long have yotr resided in
i this ward !
5 Have y u voted at any election in
the District or in any State within- the
period of one year prior to ’the Ist of
June next 7
6. Where were you during the ex
istence of t te rebellion ?
7. Were you iu the rebel army at
any time ?
8. Did you furnish supplies of any
kind to that army ?
9. 11a 1 you any cdmmunicati m with
any person or pereoin in t a rebel
Stut ■*> between April 1861, and April,
1860 ?
10. Were you engaged in any kind
of trade with tlte euetny during the
rebellion ?
A satisfactory answer to tho above
questions entitles’ the applicant to the
rigut ol registry us a duly qualified
voter.
Whites-Blacks.
Some of our eoUMiiporaries are ma
king calculations relative to the num
ber of Whites and Blacks in Georgia
We have seen the census of 1860, and
give tho following as the censtls of our
State. Number of Whites—s9l,6Bß
Blacks 465,693 ; giving 135,875 more
whites.
The number of Male White* are—
-301.U 6- Blacks - - 330,§63—giving
70,304 more male whites. With such
a majority, the whites can control the
legislation of the State if unit'd in the
utAomplishiuent of any object or prin
ciple.
By reference to the comptroller Gen
eral s report we see that the uu inter
of White Foils in 1866, were 89,909
Blacks 65,909,giving the Whites—
-34,000 uiaj-ir ty. — Southern Re,ord,r.
Fitch on Con/iscocton. < IttoT fjcetb
ou* friend of the Griffin Star generally
ha* notions of his own on matters and
thing* in general, aud here are hta
views on confiscation :
We desire to inform those of our
readers who are fearing llita -‘raw head
and Woody bones,” that the Yankee*
are altogether too sbr wd a people *o
confiscate our ]uudt a- long as wc fol
low our present system ol busmen* ;
for iht y already get every thing talu<
able that we raise on our farms, aud
we buy everyhing we wrar from them,
aud everything wc eat except a little
turnip sabot—and if th* Yankees
would send that here for sale, our peo
ple would quit ra sing it.
Confiscation, indeed ! If we *re
not already confiscated, we should like
to know the reason w),y. W*are reg
ular brick makers for Ysnkeedom now,
' and they do not even tuiuisb u* the
straw.
Democrats, Gains in Dennsylramia.
--Au election was held in Lewmtowu,
Penn., on Friday, the 15th instant.
Ihe Democrats elected their entire
1 ticket, with one exception, lor the
first time in fifteen rear*
“ Might Get Stubborn —The rea
son given in tbo debate in thq .Senate
on Thursday, why Congress should not
force negro suffrage on the Northern
States as well as on the Southern, ia
somewhat refreshing. The former it
was said, “ might get stubborn, and
refuse to submit to it.” Wc are glad
to see that the present Congress, after
all, think there is some liniit to theip
authority. Having the South in thei#' r
power, they can put anything upon
her they choose, but they are afraid ta
try negro suffrage on tbeir own peo
ple, notwithstanding there ia not one
black man to five hundred whites
among them. The truth is this : ne
gro suffrage, even to the unappreeia.
hie extern that it would be felt at tlw
North, is distasteful and odious to the
Northern people who arc so ready to
put it upon us, and those members am
afraid of losing their place* if they
offer the people of the North such air
indignity. What a beautiful set of
demagogues they are '.—Macon 7Vfc
(jraph.
Greefy Desires no Man to is Disc
franchised. — Ihe last number of the
Now I ork Tribune says as to the per
sons who are disfranchised :
“Every loyal citizen, black or white,
is enabled, by the two reconstruction
| .-eta, tu have » voice in the goml work
of restoration, with at least foui-fifrlus
of those who have been rebels. The
remaining fifth we hope to see cafran
closed very soon. Congress has pro*
: \ ided for that in the pending consti
tution 1 amendment and we trust that
it? consummation will not long be de
layed. 1 he Houth clearly understands,
as we do, that the way to this lie*
through a prompt and cheerful con
formity to the requirements of Con
j gross. Ihe -South seems to be acting
well her part.”
1 11 E Southern Cultivator
The April number of this well known
aprieultu-ul journal contains 48 pages
‘“ I reading mutter, mostly orig
inal. It is embellished with a t-ats
lul design and gruund plan of a con
venient dwelling—the first of a series.
David Dickson, the most successful
planter in Georgia, gives two coiumu
l.ittjtions, which, with over thirty oth
er original aitiele*, on topics pertain
ing to the I arm, Garden und Fircsid*
such as Cotton Culture, Manures,
Grasses, -Sorghum and other crops,
•Sheep, Implements—Grapca, Beaches,
Vegctab'e*—a letter from Gcmea
Munro, Ac., Ac., fully sustain the re
putation ot this valuable paper, which
has been regularly issued tor nearly
twonty-five years.
MARRIED
On the 17 th of March, by Rev. I>r. Mann in if,
Mr John A. ami Mit« Leith J.
IjTji.k ; all of Thomas Countv, Or.
J.SCHIFF
AND
BROTHER
WAVE RECEIVED THEN*
SPRlfir&& SUMMER,
or
DRY GOODS
’"V-”
CLOTHING,
To wliieli they respectfully invite the at-*
tent ion of the public.
TO TIJE LADIES'
Wo fiiii offer rich (ircundiuc?*, Silk*, Or gam*
Alien, Xunltiir, Print*, and a wrll aeleeted
Stock of White* Good* and Einhronle
rioa, and a good itock of Ladies',
Mimio* and Children * Hat*,
und many oilier styl«* of
Oond* too numerous
• to mention.
To the Gentlemen
Wa can any. If TOO wish Clothing-, flats, Host#
and Kboos. Klnrts and Furnishing floods,
give u* a call and we will not
full to so it yon
As one of th* firm is constantly ia W. Tork
to attend to the toying, we run stford to sslt
, foods for Isss than any other Nona*.
If you asm gr-od fluid At Mlrrr Wsstftrs,
saH aw J Sr HI Hr 4k BROIL
At J St It IFF A BROS, you will Had th#
■ sot sa* « •soapesi Tsbsrcs
Th« Cboapuot Good* are sold Wy J tH'HIPP
A HKO , who arc rocoiriag fresh Usuda «•
rjr ws»h. aa ona of th* Ini rest its* I* K.TsA
A good wryly of Trwaks and Leather, Saleh
elk. for I unties sad Gsnts, found St
J 8t HIFP A BROS.
French Calf Stuns and Korlhera Sol* I-rsthsr,
constantly on hand at J sunrw A BRO*
April 3 *
areum t niuMi #■■■#>•
OK th* Kim Monday la-fan* uort syplwa
tin* w.Il ho wad* to th* Court of Ordinary *
■aid C-iaaSy (or aa ordar to aril all the Laado
’■eiongiag t-> the ostais of Wai, P West, Ms*
of said Countr deeresorL _
jnnx wßsr.
Ayr* : Id Mat t